Do buffers in an intersection really make things that much faster?
Seems more like a recipe for a deadlock to me.
Why not buffer the trains on the straight rail segments by spacing the signals 1 train length apart instead?

PyroFire wrote:

Well there's your problem.
Lay some rails.

Well, duh.
That's because the percentages get added, not multiplied.

As soon as you start using beacons, you have officially foregone energy efficiency anyway and it's all about effectivity at that point so this doesn't matter.

Same issue here.
Placing new rail blueprints down produces working signals but my rail network is too gigantic to just remake so the new patch is unplayable for me unless I start over entirely.

bbbower wrote:You wouldn't have to change the way bots work. *Still necessary for everything else

Like what?

Point is that 'upgrading' your furnaces from Steel to Electric isn't worth it until you're ready to put Efficiency modules in them (or have gotten off of steam and onto solar/nuclear). Well. Duh. If you can make electric furnaces, also making 2 efficiency modules a pop is well within your ability s...

DerGraue wrote:If you don't like pollution then electric furnaces powered by steam and without efficiency modules are slightly worse then stone and steel furnaces.

If someone doesn't like pollution, why would they stick with steam and not use efficiency 1 modules?

I doubt this is feasible. You're not painting something in photoshop here, you're interacting with moving parts in real-time so undoing something involves a ton more than just placing the entity back to where you removed it from, you also have to keep track of and reset every single other entity suc...

Having roboports on trains is great if you like logistics network constantly being broken up, roboports running on burnables because they can't interact with power poles and robots forever chasing after trains that departed without them.

Thinking about it, I'd like even better that ghosts within reach are automatically built with the content of your backpack (with a way to toggle on and off maybe). Just plopping a blueprint, running through it, and auto-building within the characters reach would be such a QoL feature. Kind of OP th...

Factorio has a very tier oriented system to its combat. In that respect it's okay for the pistol to find itself obsolete in the face of new tech. But I do think the pistol should be an ingredient in the smg. After all a SMG is basically a hot rodded pistol, at least when you do it right. :lol: That...

Who cares if your factory can't be nit pickingly micro optimized by using assembler 1's? That kind of balance is stupid anyway. I do. I like actual options, not just the illusion of options. Ideally, all tiers of assemblers, miners and smelters would have their unique use that might open up a diffe...

Engine: 1 steel, 1 gear, 1 stone furnace And now stone furnaces are no longer obsolete. Being a dead end recipe is not the same as obsolescence. Obsolescence means you have a blatantly superior option on basically every level and no reason to pick the inferior one. This recipe changes nothing about...

Another thing, I'm personally not a fan of obsolescence and tiers. Ideally, all your tools should remain useful throughout the entire game and "iron pickaxe" situations should be minimized. It's not really worth it to make an "early game train" whose only function is being abando...

What do you mean by 'overhead'? Game performance. Iterating through every single piece of rail, also possibly adding a new "electrified rail" entity after they just cleaned up rails and got rid of curved ones. It came up before but got shot down due to something like that. Allow the locom...

Electrified rails came up before, it's not going to happen because it would create too much overhead. Trains running on liquid came up before. One of those things is out of fuel, mid-junction. What do you do? As for shittifying steam locos and new fuel, vehicles just got different types of accelerat...

This is still needed. In addition, pasting an assembler blueprint over an existing one should mark that assembler to be filled with the modules of the blueprint. It already does that with assembler recipes which you probably never noticed because copypasting recipes is so easy so it's only fair to e...

From my experience, half-assing it won't do. Going for 1 iron 1 copper belt which you also use to make greens only means you'll have to rip it up and rebuild it sooner rather than later and doing it sooner is slower and more painful. Spaghetti something together and rush to red belt as soon as possi...

Still not sure what you mean in the context of this mod. Nothing. After your reply that it wasn't possible I said "figures if it (vehicles with no tank controls) was possible/that easy to do, there would be mods making use of it by now". You did something wrong while rezipping. But you ca...

I'll think about it, strafing would be cool but must be done in a way that makes sense and keeps controls simple. Not sure what you mean with that floating platform. I meant a platform that controls just like the player but is faster and has no collision. Be that a helicopter, a hoverboard, a jetpa...